Guide to theWashington-Oregon Canning Pear Association Records 1953-1974
Cage 353

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Creator
Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association
Title
Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association Records
ID
Cage 353
Date [inclusive]
1953-1974
Extent
3 containers., 2.5 linear feet of shelf space., 3850 items.
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Minutes, correspondence, financial statements, price data and production statistics, newsletters and photographs of an association of pear producers. Correspondents include buyers and United States Representative Catherine May.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 353, Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association Records. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

The Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association organized in the fall of 1953 and incorporated under Washington Law in March 1959. The expressed purpose of the Association is to: stabilize the canning pear industry, return a fair price to growers, bring about an early price, cooperate fully with all segments of industry, and grow quality pears in the most efficient and scientific manner possible. The Association began as a strictly Washington enterprise and in 1954 the membership was about 600. In 1956 Oregon joined the Association and the membership swelled to over 1000.

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Scope and Content

The Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association Records are arranged in five major series: minutes of meetings, office files, buyers files, mimeo file, and photographs. The bulk of the minutes series is arranged in two loose-leaf binders; these minutes are arranged chronologically from March 1954 through June 1962. The remainder of the minutes series is arranged chronologically with the most recent entry first. The office files series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the purchasing organization and chronologically within the individual buyer's file, with the most recent entry first. When the purchasing organization has changed names, the previous names are listed in parentheses in the container list. The mimeo file is arranged chronologically with the most recent entry first. A small group of generally unidentified and undated photographs are the final series.

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Arrangement

The Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association Records, 1953-1974, are arranged in four series.

The first series, minutes, contains minutes of the directors, general, district, and some committee meetings for the period October 1953 through June 1962. Some correspondence is included in the two loose-leaf binders of the minutes of directors and general meetings. The binders cover the period March 1954 through June 1962. The remainder of the minutes series includes records of district, directors, annual, and committee meetings during the period between 1953 through 1959.

The second series, the office files, includes material from the period between 1953 through 1962 with the bulk of this series centering on the late 1950's. Although there is no formal correspondence file or series, correspondence may be found throughout the office files under the many different subjects included in this series. The office files series contains material on directors, legislation, membership, production surveys, publicity, legal forms and files, and other subjects. Included in the office files series is an imcomplete run of the Association newsletter "The Pear Facts," for the period April 1956 through August 1962.

The third series, the buyers file, is composed of correspondence and purchase and shipping orders from the various companies who bought pears from the Association during the period 1954 through 1974, with the bulk of the material after 1958.

The fourth series, the mimeo file, contains all the mimeographed material sent to the members of the association as well as that material sent to the directors, shippers and purchases, and news releases. Material in this series includes memoranda to the members and directors, shipping information, purchase price negotiations, financial statements from the Association, information on general and annual meetings, news releases, ballots for officers, production and price statistics, and some early issues of the Association newsletter.

The collection also includes some photographs, many of which are unidentified and/or undated, that have been placed at the end as the last series.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2012

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association were donated to the Washington State University Libraries by the organization through Secretary-Manager Clay Whybark in June 1977 (77-24).

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Creator(s) :
  • Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association--Archives

Personal Name(s)

Subject(s) :
  • May, Catherine Dean Barnes, 1914-
Donor(s) :
  • Whybark, Clay. WaPS

Subject(s)

  • Agriculture--Oregon--Societies, etc.--Records and correspondence
  • Agriculture--Washington (State)--Societies, etc.--Records and correspondence
  • Pear--Oregon
  • Pear--Washington (State)
  • Agriculture
  • Oregon
  • Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Minutes 

box folder

Minutes of Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association March 1954-March 1958  121

1 1

Minutes of Washington-Oregon Canning Pear Association March 1958-June 1962  120

1 2

Committee Meetings 1953-1957  73

1 3

District Meetings February 1956-January 1958  27

1 4

Minutes of Directors Meetings December 1956-December 1958  58

1 5

Annual Meeting January 1957-March 1958  69

1 6

"Programs, Agendas, Meetings" 1958-1959  13

1 7

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Series 2: Office Files 

box folder

Cherry Association Bulletins  12

2 8

"Cooperatives, Material Regarding Entry of" 1957-1958  11

2 9

Directors: 

box folder

 March 1957-December 1957  32

2 10

 February 1958-November 1959  103

2 11

 1962  80

2 12

 1963  80

2 13
box folder

Farmers Cooperative Service 1956-1962  83

2 14

Legal File 1953-1955  61

2 15

Legal Forms undated  25

2 16

Legislation: 

box folder

  1959-1961  77

2 17

 1962  10

2 18
box folder

Mailing Permits 1959-1963  70

2 19

Membership: 

box folder

General 1959-1962  59

2 20

Lists 1959  5

2 21

General November 1956-December 1958  27

2 22

Newsletters: 

box folder

 April 1956-February 1958  30

2 23

 March 1959-August 1962  25

2 24
box folder

Northwest Canners and Freezers Association 1958-1959  82

2 25

Organization File September 1953-September 1954  114

2 26

Production Survey: 

box folder

Wenatchee 1962  67

2 27

Yakima 1962  72

2 28
box folder

Promotion November 1957-January 1959  43

2 29

Publicity: 

box folder

 February 1957-September 1958  77

2 30

 January 1959-August 1962  32

2 31
box folder

Statistics 1954  27

2 32

Yakima Chamber of Commerce August-September 1962  3

2 33

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Series 3: Buyers File 

"Castle and Cook Foods (formerly Dole, & Paulos Bros.):" 

box folder

 February 1959-August 1967  65

2 34

 August 1967-January 1974  41

2 35
box folder

Contadina Foods August-December 1967  3

2 36

D and D Canning Co. July 1958-March 1962  14

2 37

Del Monte (formerly California Packing Corp.): 

box folder

 February 1958-November 1966  91

2 38

 August 1967-March 1974  55

2 39

Hudson House: 

box folder

 September 1955-August 1967  62

3 40

 August 1968-September 1969  5

3 41
box folder

J & G Brokerage September 1954-August 1967  46

3 42

"Libby, McNeill & Libby:" 

box folder

 November 1957-December 1966  83

3 43

 July 1967-March 1974  42

3 44

Northwest Packing Company: 

box folder

 January 1959-July 1967  66

3 45

 August 1967-February 1974  58

3 46

"United States Products, Ind.:" 

box folder

 February 1958-August 1967  57

3 47

 August 1967-March 1974  29

3 48
box folder

Washington Canners Corp. February 1954-October 1968  94

3 49

Yakima Packing Co. July 1956-July 1962  32

3 50

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Series 4: Mimeo File and Photographs 

Mimeo File 

box folder

 1956  90

3 51

  1957-1958  73

3 52

 1959  126

3 53

 1960  92

3 54

 1961  95

3 55

 1962  100

3 56

 1963  95

3 57

 1964  97

3 58

 1965  101

3 59

 1966  74

3 60

 1967  77

3 61

 1968  90

3 62

 1969  87

3 63
box folder

Photographs  26

3 64

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